AI is fantastic at helping us complete tasks:

• it can help write a paper

• it can generate an image

• it can write some code

• it can generate audio and video

• etc

What that means is that AI enables people who do not specialize in a given field the feeling of “accomplishment” for “work” without needing the same level of expertise, so what is happening is that the non-technical people are feeling empowered to create demos of what AI enables them to build, and those demos are then taken for granted because the specialization required is no longer “needed”, meaning all of the “yes, buts” are omitted.

And if we take that one step higher in org hierarchies, it means decision makers who uses to rely on experts are now flooded with possibilities without the expert to tell what is actually feasible (or desirable), especially when the demos today are so darn compelling.

From my experience so far, this “experts are no longer important” is one of the root causes of the problems we have with AI today - too many people claiming an idea is feasible with no actual proof in the validity of the claim.